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Trio Isimsiz commissioned, with BrittenPears Arts and Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical Madrid, Francisco Coll’s Piano Trio. Delayed by a year, the world premiere was given in Madrid in January 2022 and the UK premiere was given at the Britten Studio in Aldeburgh in June 2022. In August 2022 the Trio took it into the recording studio for Rubicon Classics, where its musical bedfellows were Brahms’ C major Trio Op 87 and Korngold’s Piano Trio – his Op 1. We were there to film the rehearsals and first day of the recording at The Menuhin Hall, interviewing all three members of the Trio and composer Francisco Coll. The CD – completing Trio Isimsiz’s Brahms cycle – is released on 8 December 2023.

A passion project that crosses musical boundaries, Tessa Lark’s The Stradgrass Sessions brings together some of America’s finest musicians to duet with Tessa – pianist Jon Batiste, mandolin-player Sierra Hull, double-bassist Edgar Meyer and fiddle-player Michael Cleveland – to explore the folk roots of classical music and traditional American bluegrass. It’s a heady mix, with an album a long-time in the making, which is now ready to be released on First Hand Records on 5 May. This will have you toe-tapping through the summer.

Theodore Platt’s second demonstration video is of Rossini’s famous cavatina for the hero of Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville): Figaro’s Largo al Factotum, a baritone’s calling card if ever there was one.

For his final demonstration video baritone Theodore Platt sings an aria for Fritz from Act II of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s opera Die Tote Stadt: Pierrot’s Tanzlied – Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen (My longing, my delusion).